the yellow one im working with is the best of the bunch....and it needs alot of work,i just wanted the 1 and the old lady said "you gotta take them all" so i ended up with a 71' standerd,71' super,73' super,68' standerd,73' standerd,65' standerd,63' standerd,61' standerd,and 2 that i couldn tell a thing about.....old/wrekd/rusted,and a 59' that didn even make it home.i have sold the rest of them over the past cuple weeks....so once i decided to build another bug i drug this one up from the pasture below my house used the arc welder to cut the front and back off it then went to town on the tear down.

todays progress........
these pics are after i completely sanded the body,filled the molding holes,filled the antana hole,i then primed the body,blocked it out,sanded,then sprayed a lil' paint.....but the prime/paint pics will come later my comp is acting up

by the way i filled the molding/antana holes with weld the body filler u see is just to fill the slite low spot that grinding caused....any way jus tfor hte record i am about 3 days behind on the pics,cuz my wireless net card sucks....so wile its workin her is a pic of it after the prime....the wheel well is taped of cuz its already been bed liner'd....and the front aint painted cuz im guna run a 1pc.

ok,so what you see is day1-stripn it down,day 2 weld/fill all unwanted holes sand sand sand,prime,sand,prime sand.day 3 sand,paint,sand,paint,sand,paint.....and this is the paint b4 the final wet sand,and clear coat...and while the paint was drying i ran to ft. smith to the v-dub shop i use to get some parts....while there i got a new windsheild,and window rubber set...by the way the empi rubber sucks this is the 3rd car iv used it on and it duzn fit just rite and tears REALLY easy....and will all but shrink outa the car after a year or so......i went ahead and installed the rear window and side glass b4 the clear coat...why u ask ? well....i dunno i just jumped the gun i guess.

picked up the engine i will be using for tha bug..its a 88' TBI 2.5L 4 cyl. outa a s-10 and i only had to give $40 for it and he used his tractor to pull it out...don't know anything about it an neather did he,but it has nice clean looking paint on the back of the engine where the flywheel is,has new freez plugs,new dizzy cap,and u can tell that it has had the pan,water pump,and intake/exuast off because there are new seals/gaskets.....so hopefuly this means it has been rebuilt in the not so distant past....but im gunna drop the pan,and pull the head to see what kina shape its really in,i'll post pics of the lil' 4 banger when its light out.

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